little cotton

"you……"

A strange and vague voice sounded from his ears.

A light seemed to come from the fog, through the darkness, awakening her consciousness from the endless nightmare.

Don't, don't open your eyes again, don't face everything that makes you miserable.

Little Cotton hugged herself tightly, allowing her frail body to curl up in the soft white aura.

"Are you a god?"

The cold fingertips lightly touched her body, scaring her into shrinking her already small body even tighter.

"I didn't mean any harm, I just..."

As the soft spiritual power slowly entered her body, the woman's voice became much clearer.

The slightly hoarse voice carried a bit of confusion and hesitation, but it made people feel inexplicably at ease.

No matter how long it has passed, she still remembers that day, when she timidly opened her eyes, she saw a gentle smile like the warm sun in early spring.

That was the tenderness she had never seen after her mother left.

It is also a stunning beauty that she has never seen in her life.

……

The fox in Yu Ling's memory must be the most gentle in the world, so gentle that the tails of his eyes are slightly raised, always carrying a warm smile.

Zhong Chuyun's voice was very similar to that fox, so similar that she was in a trance for a moment - Zhong Chuyun was the fox who treated her very well!

But after a trance, she realized that this was just an illusion.

Not the same, behind this similar voice, there is a completely different feeling.

If there is any difference, it should be very cold, as cold as ice knocked out of the cellar, hard and without any temperature.

Moreover, after coldly rejecting her, this woman without the slightest warmth turned around and walked back to her guest room, closed the wooden door casually, and left her alone in the courtyard.

The momentary loss made Yu Ling lose her way.

Yu Ling thought, maybe she should find a place to hide secretly first, and when Zhong Chuyun is about to leave at dawn tomorrow, then find a place on her body where no one will find out and hang it up quietly.Whenever he arrived in the city, he would part ways with her.

But she was quite lost, so lost that her eyes were slightly red for a while, and she didn't know where to hide herself.

Autumn night, the moonlight is slightly cool, and the wind is also slightly cool.

According to the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus, the girl who had been standing in the courtyard for a long time suddenly squatted down slowly, hugged her knees silently, and curled up into a small ball.The white sweater on his body, which was already yellowed and unthreaded, was thin and wide, and it seemed that it couldn't warm this scrawny body at all.

She bit her lip subconsciously, trying hard to suppress the grievance in her heart.

In the silence, a "squeak" sound was heard suddenly, and the door of the guest room with the candle still on behind opened a crack.

The sudden sound made Yu Ling, who might be punished no matter what she did in her previous life, tremble slightly.

When he came back to his senses, the ear-piercing scolding in his memory didn't appear, what was there was only the candlelight cast behind him, tremblingly reflecting the solitary shadow shrunk into a small ball.

Yu Ling turned her head in surprise, and saw that Zhong Chuyun had changed into a white nightgown, holding a half-burned candlestick in one hand, leaning against the small door crack, staring into a pair of beautiful eyes , looking at her quietly.

Such staring made her a little dazed.

"come in."

As Zhong Chuyun said, he opened the door, turned around and walked back into the room, disappearing from Yu Ling's sight.

She put the candlestick back on the wooden table, sat quietly and waited.

After an unknown amount of time, footsteps softer than kittens finally sounded outside the house.

The girl walked slowly to the door, poked a small head in timidly, raised her eyes to look in, and met Zhong Chuyun's bottomless eyes like a cold pool by the candlelight.

The little head shrank back in an instant.

"You have observed me all night since the dinner, and now you have no courage."

"Well……"

Has he been exposed long ago?

Yu Ling frowned, walked into the room on tiptoe, gently closed the door behind her back, turned around and stood obediently by the door.

"They say you are a fairy from the city. I want to go with you, to the city... I don't want to stay here anymore." She said, lowering her little head, except for the damp and cracked floor under her feet, where is she? I dare not look at it.

No one in the room spoke, even the air was silent.

The fox in my memory will always respond to her words immediately, even if it's just a light call without the slightest weight.

But this fox didn't have it. This fox had the same face as that fox, but it would just hang her by the door fiercely. After listening to what she said, it didn't mean to talk to her at all, just quietly scrutinized her.

Silence, for a moment, only silence remained in the dimly lit guest room.

She thought that this embarrassment would last at least until she compared this woman with a certain fox from head to toe in her mind.

But her stomach won't allow it.

Even without counting the time she spent on an empty stomach before she returned to this world, from dusk to the middle of the night at this moment, it was enough to make her, a little demon who couldn't use her spiritual power to temporarily heal her stomach, feel so hungry that her chest pressed against her back.

So, the stomach growled.

In this embarrassment-filled guest room, there was a very inopportune drumbeat.

Yu Ling pursed her lips in embarrassment, hugged her hands in front of her, and unconsciously rubbed her cold fingers.

After a brief moment of embarrassment, she saw Zhong Chuyun withdraw that scrutinizing gaze, took out a few small strips of delicately packaged things from somewhere, and placed them gently on the table.

Yu Ling has some impressions of this thing. In his memory, the cousin who came back from the city bought a lot of it. It is called chocolate, and it is a snack that people in the city like to eat.Tear off the dark inside, one piece connected.

At that time, the cousin gave it to all the goblins in the family, and the old housekeeper who sneered at the things in the city tasted it, but she didn't have a share.

She bit her lower lip lightly, blinked, and didn't dare to step forward.

When Zhong Chuyun saw it, he pushed it forward a little, then got up, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, lightly hooked his finger, and extinguished the candlestick on the table.

The room darkened instantly.

Yu Ling saw Zhong Chuyun pull up the quilt and lay down on the bed.

She hesitated for a long time before she dared to take advantage of the dim light penetrating through the window paper to walk to the table softly, touched one of the chocolates, bent and squatted under the table, and illuminated with the faint spiritual light condensed on her fingertips, reflecting After reading the package several times, I tore it open and took a small taste.

The food in town is delicious.

Sweetness and bitterness melted together in her mouth, as if she missed every bit of another world.

She couldn't help thinking that since she could live again, she would never live and die alone like before.

She was going to take a look outside, to the liveliest human world in the fox's mouth.

It's just that she can attach herself to any uninspired animal, but she may not be able to get out of this mountain sealed with spiritual power.

She had to follow Zhong Chuyun, if she lost it, she would miss the best chance to leave.

That night, she didn't dare to sleep.

Because he was afraid that he would not see the fairy from the city when he woke up, he squatted under the window with his knees hugged and sat all night.

The sky outside the window was not clear yet, and the rooster in the house had already crowed for two rounds.

The girl curled up by the window dozed off in a daze, with her heavy little head resting on her knees, looking like she was about to fall.Like a broom, the two low-pitched stalks swept back and forth on the thin arms.

The chocolate on the table was finished, and the wrappers were scattered at her feet, each piece was folded flat.

The moment the window was gently pushed open, the autumn morning light shone in from overhead.

Yu Ling woke up suddenly, and when she raised her eyes, she met a pair of strange but familiar eyes.

After looking at each other for a short while, she opened her somewhat chapped lips, and just about to say something, she vaguely heard Yu Tang who couldn't wait for her to serve, scolding at the top of his throat looking for someone.

Bad memories flooded into her mind again, she tried her best to shrink herself into a ball, and looked into Zhong Chuyun's eyes with a little more pleading.

Zhong Chuyun frowned: "Is it calling you?"

Yu Ling didn't answer, but stretched out her hand carefully, and gently grabbed Zhong Chuyun's skirt, with a trace of stubbornness unwilling to compromise in her red eyes.

"Take me away, please..."

Zhong Chuyun couldn't help looking out the window.

After being silent for a long time, he suddenly asked softly, "What's your name?"

Yu Ling quickly replied: "Yu Ling, the bell of the bell! My mother said that our cotton's life is to make bells and spit, so..."

"Got it." Zhong Chuyun said lightly.

"..." Yu Ling knew that she was disgusted by others, so she bit her lip and lowered her eyebrows.

Zhong Chuyun: "It's not that I can't take you away, but do you know what it means to leave this place with me today?"

Yu Ling: "Anything is fine, as long as you are willing to take me away!"

Yu Ling's eyes were very firm, she held Zhong Chuyun's skirt tightly, as if as long as she didn't let go, she would not be left here by this distinguished guest from outside.

After a long period of silence, Zhong Chuyun gave a faint "hmm", and lowered his eyes to the little hand that was crumpling his nightgown.

The girl's expression was slightly startled, and she quickly let go of her hands, moved her butt towards her side, stood up while leaning against the wall, and bowed deeply to Zhong Chuyun.He opened his mouth to express his gratitude, but he was afraid that his voice would disturb the cleanliness of the "benefactor". In the end, he leaned against the wall and obediently stood by the door where he had been punished for standing for a long time last night, quietly watching Zhong Chuyun change after washing. Good clothes, unhurriedly packed a big white box next to the bed.

Suddenly, footsteps came from outside the house.

The familiar yet fearful voice in Yu Ling's memory came from outside the house.

She was startled, and hurriedly turned herself into a cotton flower, and subconsciously wanted to find an inconspicuous corner to hide, but unexpectedly, Zhong Chuyun snatched her back, and with the urging of her fingertips, she forcibly turned her back Humanoid.

"Woo..." Yu Ling pressed back against the wall again, squatted down and hugged her thin and small self.

Yu Tang's voice from outside came in through the closed door, which made her dare not even take a breath. Seeing that Zhong Chuyun had the idea to open the door, she quickly reached out and grabbed the corner of her skirt again. He shook his little head desperately.

Zhong Chuyun hesitated for a moment, and finally just stood in front of the door without opening the door.

"Miss Zhong, did you rest well last night?"

"Ah."

"That's good, that's good." Yu Tang outside the house hesitated for a while, then smiled flatteringly, "Miss Zhong wants some breakfast, can I have someone bring it to you?"

"No, I'll be leaving soon."

"Uh, then... Then what my grandfather said yesterday was between you and me... Cough, Miss Zhong don't think about it anymore?"

"Last night, I made it very clear that there is no need to consider this matter, and everything will be done according to the previous arrangement."

"Ah, hehe, it's okay, it's okay." Yu Tang's laughter was extremely embarrassing, and he seemed unwilling to do so, but he obviously didn't dare to speak.

After a few seconds of embarrassment, he cleared his throat and opened his mouth again: "Then, Miss Zhong thought about it all night, and which sister of mine did she choose in the end?"

Hearing this, Yu Ling tilted her neck, raised her head, and looked at Zhong Chuyun standing by the door in a daze.When she found that Zhong Chuyun's gaze happened to pass over her, she couldn't help blinking her curious eyes.

In the next second, Zhong Chuyun responded lightly to Yu Tang outside the house: "Last night I met a little cotton flower named Yu Ling, which suits me quite well."

"What?! That little..." Yu Tang raised his voice many times, but he still swallowed the title of little bitch, "That girl, she, she is not suitable, is she?"

"Why is it inappropriate? Is it not your Yu family's blood, or is it not your wood clan's demon?"

"...It's not, it's just, it's just that this girl is still young, she...she is too young to leave home...This, this is really, really inappropriate."

"Really?" Zhong Chuyun lowered his eyebrows and looked at Yu Ling, "How old are you?"

"Is that girl in there?" There was obvious anger in Yu Tang's words.

Yu Ling's eyes widened from nervousness, and she clearly opened her mouth, but the words seemed to be blocked in her throat, and she couldn't utter a single word.

She was still scared after all.

The shadow brought to her by this "home" made her frightened like a mute at this moment.

But Zhong Chuyun asked again: "How old are you?"

This time, Yu Ling saw the displeasure in Zhong Chuyun's eyes.

"She's still young, she's not yet an adult, how can a child be allowed to do this kind of thing..." Yu Tang said, put on the so-called "big brother" airs, and yelled fiercely at Yu Ling in the room, "Yu Ling Bell you come out! Who allowed you to run around? Miss Zhong needs to rest, why are you bothering her?!"

She suddenly realized that if she didn't dare to speak now, then Zhong Chuyun would really not help her anymore.

"I'm five hundred years old, yesterday should be my coming-of-age ceremony..." Yu Ling said, her eyes turned red, "It's just that everyone seems to have forgotten."

"What nonsense are you talking about? You give me..."

"When the age is up, she's the one." Zhong Chuyun interrupted what Yu Tang hadn't finished speaking outside the house, his tone was so cold that he couldn't speak.

"But……"

"This kind of thing that you love and I want, is the Mu clan going to teach me how to choose the Fox clan?"

Zhong Chuyun's tone was very flat, but Yu Tang, who hadn't been able to enter the room so far, was so blocked that he was speechless. In the end, he could only laugh aloud twice, turned and left full of anger.

That guy is usually domineering on this mountain, and this is the first time Yu Ling saw someone who made him dare not even speak. He was surprised and happy at the same time, and even looked at Zhong Chuyun with more eyes. worship.

"It's okay." Zhong Chuyun said, touching Yu Ling's little head.

Yu Ling shrunk her neck subconsciously, raised her eyes and saw that Chu Yun had already walked back to the bed, and packed her suitcase in twos and twos.

Zhong Chuyun stood up and said to Yu Ling: "Let's go."

His tone was no longer as cold as last night.

For a moment, Yu Ling suddenly felt that the Zhong Chuyun in front of her eyes seemed to be the same as the fox in her memory.

But she knew it was just an illusion.

Thankfully, she's getting out of here, and that's an absolutely real thing.

only……

The matter of your love and my wish that Zhong Chuyun said sounds very important to the Mu clan.

What will happen?

Hope it's not too difficult...

Thinking of this, Yu Ling couldn't help biting her finger, and fell into a little panic.

——She chose me to help me, and I must not mess things up.

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Little Cotton: What will happen?

(In a low voice, the last chapter edited about [-] words of details. It is recommended to read it back, but it will not affect the plot if you don’t read it back.)